Show IN MISSION FIELD success in the sunny south HOW THE IS provo boy tells ot tins treatment aanon he hospitable people of alabama enquirer corr apon dence lowndes co ala june 12 1897 nine months have passed bince I 1 left my dear old provo home in tha mountains to oil q mission ern stales and I 1 thought a few words from this part of our fair country would not be amisa to the many leaders of your pacer when I 1 came to chattanooga tenn was set apart to labor in the south alabama conference without purse or grip to depend on god to raise up frieada to provide me with food and president told us if we did our duty we would lack for nothing and I 1 can now bear my aeeti mony to this as 1 haye never lacked for anything to eat nor a place to bleed bleep since I 1 have been here the people ere beginning to g te tha gospel we are messengers of moie closely and wherever reyer they will do this we never fail to gain friende we have now in the southern states over four hundred elders and I 1 believe the time will come when there will be nearer four thousand A great work is beant done here jn the south la the 3 ear of 1896 one thousand two hundred and twenty five we ra baptized into the church of jesus christ and thia prena jear I 1 believe they will more auau double it since I 1 haye been in the south my labora haye been mostly confined to mobile although I 1 have done bome in four other counties while 1 I was in mobile county 1 often had the privilege of visiting the metropolis of the stale mobile city it ia not noted in particular for its large population but for its being located on the mobile bay where a great deal of commercial strade ia carried on by ships and boats A person might go on the wharf any time and sae nun dreda of ships and boats loading and unloading their cargo many times have we been invited to go on baard the ship when they were unloading bananas and help ourselves oura elves to a delicious treat for a pair of elders from the west who were traveling without meney our conference convened on the ath and ath of may thirty six elders met with saints and friends and we had an time but the sad time for parting came too soon I 1 was giyen a new companion and a new field or county in which to labor we keep a report of the labor we do while here which is recorded in a book for that purpose perhaps a copy of the work done by my companion and myself in the last moe months would prove interesting te especially to those who are expecting to join us in the near future is ss follows miles walked 2510 families and revisited tracts cayen away 1000 books anven away 24 books loaned out 14 books sold 23 meetings held children blessed 15 people baptized 13 gospel conversations 1711 the raleon we have not distributed more tracts is that oar has been meteoric holding meetings where other elders had distributed tracts toe work here Is one of love I 1 have learned to love the souls of men and women bul I 1 hate their deeds mobs are about a thing of the past although we find many that huud like to take their guns and run us on but as a general thing they cannot ret enough to join them in the dirty work the governor here in ala says the elders of the church of jesca christ mast ba it it abea the trompa to do it the time has come here when the different churches cannot agree among themselves not even on latter day saints aud I 1 believe it wil n t be ions until liny will want ns to settle their difficult iop it must needs be that the be in filled and it s ems to me they are being fulfilled as fiat as possible to the ven letter the men in utah little know the greatness of the missionary work until they reach their feild of labor and meet with people and talk with them on the Cri epel it then dawda upon them how the people that have ahe 1 gosp 1 of jesus christ are blessed bl eseed anil have no need of being tossed to and fro bv every wind 0 doctrine taught by man they then realize that we in alfe west have bosn above all upon the ace of thia broad earth 1 I have enjoyed my labors while on my mission thus far very much and only hope and pray that I 1 may prova faithful unto the end and receive my reward with the right sous those who i have the commandments ol 01 bcd may this be the happy lot of u i all is the bieh wieh of your brother in the cau e of of truth bragga C alabama |